OFW NEWS

The Japanese government will make it easier for business firms to hire foreign workers for highly skilled job positions and as trainees to counteract Japan’s declining workforce and spur economic growth. Japan’s rapidly aging population, [Read More]

MANILA, Philippines — In response to Malaysia’s announcement on January 10 that it would launch “Ops Bersepadu” on January 21, more or less 5,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Malaysia have chosen to voluntary repatriate [Read More]

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said Filipina caregiver Rose “Osang” Fostanes might have brought pride to the Philippines with her victory in X-Factor Israel, but it does not exempt her from paying taxes to [Read More]

MANILA, Philippines – A spokeswoman of Israel’s population and immigration authority said Rose “Osang” Fostanes, the Filipina caregiver who won the X-Factor Israel recently, can work only as a caregiver and not as a singer [Read More]

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Las Vegas-based Filipino-American Richard Magdayo Dahan confessed that he k****d his wife, Daisy Casalta-Dahan, on Friday inside their apartment in Las Vegas after she asked for a divorce. According to Dahan’s [Read More]

Filipina caregiver Rose Fostanes sang her way to fame, making her dreams come true by winning it all to become the first ever grand victor of the singing reality show “X Factor Israel.” In the [Read More]

MANILA, Philippines – Rose “Osang” Fostanes, the newest Filipina singing sensation and a grand finalist of X-Factor Israel, openly admitted that she is a lesbian and that she misses her partner who is in the [Read More]

MANILA, Philippines- Good news for all undocumented migrant workers, especially Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Last Friday, January 10, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) confirmed that the government of [Read More]

The scary crackdowns on illegal workers in Saudi Arabia are behind the 196,633 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were granted legal work status by the foreign government. These OFWs were able to comply with the [Read More]

REDWOOD CITY, California – An unidentified 34-year-old male Filipino worker intentionally jumped off from the nearly 1,000-feet-long vessel, the Grand Princess, just past midnight last Tuesday, January 7, 2013. This was what the Santa Clarita, [Read More]